The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-27
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The South still remains the most chiyal-
rous part of the country. Governor Gordon
of Georgia recently kissed all the inmates of
young ladies' seminary, beginning with the
COOK, and working up to the head of the es-
adjustment, an old lady Of sixty-three.
Mrs. Cleveland will be invited to present
the flags and medals awarded to the compa-
MES and members of the New York Fire De-
partment. A day in September will be APP
pointed for the ceremony.
Ferdinand Ward sends greeting from his
stone cottage at Sing Sing to Henry S. Ives,
whom he salutes as a superior operator.
"Ives's failure" he says, puts mine far in
the shade. Over $16,000,O00 was the amount
of my liabilities, and Ives's total exceeds
that by several millions"
When the late Dir. Samuel d. Gross of
Philadelphia, married. the income from his
practice was not $500 year, Before his
death he had received fees as high as $1,000,
and he often received $1,000 and $500 for a
single operation. His professorships in the
different medical schools with which he had
been connected, up to February, 1870, yield
ed him about $4,000, and the income from
his books up to the same period had been
about $4,000, of which the greater proper
ton was derived from his System of Sur
gerry.
The stories that the grave of "Old Tippe-
canoe" Harrison is sadly neglected is denied
by the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, on
the authority of members of the Harrison
family, including the late Hon. John Scott
Harrison and his son, General Harrison, of
Indiana, who have done their share towards
keeping the tomb in good state of preserya-
ton. The Gazette thinks, however, that 'It
is appropriate that Cincinnati should have a
monument erected in honor of the gallant
old soldier and President of the United
States, who was long resident here, and a
prominent man in the public affairs of the
city. 1t would be a neat thing, too, if the
country at large should erect a handsome
monument over the grave of "Old Tippeca-
noe" at North Bend. 1t could be made a
distinguished object for many miles around,
and be marked by people travelling on the
river and on the railroads in that direction"
Captain Barr, the skipper of the Thistle,
is about five feet eight inches in height,
broad shouldered and thick-set. His full,
heavy beard is black, with few gray lines,
and here and there ldull tawny touches be-
slowed by the salt sea air. His eyes are also
black, and have the appearance of being
very large. They are surmounted by very
prominent bumps of perception, as the
phrenologists call them. The captain was
born in Glasgow forty-two years ago. He
got nautical experience as boy fishing on
the Clyde. Soon after he was twenty-one
he commanded yacht designed by Mr..
George L. Watson, the designer of the This
tie. He won with her thirty-eight prizes in
two seasons, and ever since he has been a
famous racing skipper. He sailed the This
tie to the remarkable series of victories
which set our yachtsmen figuring in the
early summer. As skipper of the Clara dur
ing two seasons he made himself perfectly
familiar with the waters in which the next
races for the Americas cup are to be run.
He talks freely to the reporters but none Of
them has yet learned from him what the
Thistle looks like below the water-line.